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Liquidating specialized jurisdiction is not judicial reform, it sows suspicion of illicit objectives that have nothing to do with public expectations, the Specialized Criminal Court and the Specialized Criminal Court of Appeal state in a...
“The political will to close down the specialized court and the specialized prosecutor’s office is not going to change,” Minister of Justice Nadezhda Yordanova said in an interview for the BNR. The Ministry of ...
Send to Kindle The Plenum of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) Thursday voted, 18-3, to adopt a declaration against the closure of the specialized criminal courts and prosecution offices as proposed by legislative revisions which did not reach a plenary debate before President Rumen Radev dissolved Parliament on Wednesday. The discussion on the declaration lasted two hours. The declaration expresses the Plenum's full support for the magistrates and staff who oppose the closure of the specialized jurisdictions. It will block the justice system and create tension among the magistrates and the...
Prosecutors in Bulgaria (APB) has alerted the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Venice Commission, the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) and the ambassadors of EU countries, the US and the UK in Bulgaria about "an unacceptable attempt to interfere with the independence of the judiciary" in connection with bills tabled by the 45th National Assembly, directly related to the rule of law. This transpires from a statement of the Association on Wednesday. The amendments in question, moved by Democratic Bulgaria, were approved on first reading by the Parliamentary Legal A...